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TO ALL WHOM IT MAYCOCERN:

Be it known that I, JOHN BAYLISS, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in '.luyeres for Blast-Furnacesg and I do hereby declare that the followingis a. full, clear, i

and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the suine.

'.lhe present invention relates more particularly to an improvement in n tuyel'e for blast-furnuces, embraced in Letters Patent granted to me on the seventh day of August, A. l). 1866; and it consists in a. novel arrangement and combination of the air-chamber with regard to the tuyere, through which the nir posses before entering the mo'uth of the tuyere. In the accompanying plate of drawings my `improvement in tuyeres is illustrated--b Figure I being a plan or top view of the same, broken out at one part to more full1 show it; and

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section takenin the plane of the liuc 12x, fig. 1.

A, in the drawings, represents the tuyere, which may be of any of thc ordinaryconstructions therefor, but which in the present instance has itstrear portion B made hollow to allow a circulationof water or othercooling medium through the same from a, reservoir, C, suitably connected therewith through pipes D and E; the one, D" for the passage of the water, and the other, E, for the escape of the sten-u1 generated by the heat of the tuyere from the water. The tuyere A is placed in a vertical position, with its mouth or orifice F on a level, or nearly so, with the're-grate of the furnace; the lower end' of the said orifice being Closed by a cover-plnte or cap, G, hung so as to be swung away from the same,hut so weighted as to be held firmly and tightly closed. Surround-r ing the tuyere Av is a. box or casing, H, that at one end I is connected through a. pipe, J, to theapparatus used for producing the air-blast; the air which enters the said box IL through the pipe J, passing from the saine into the mouth of the tuyere through a. pipe, K, upon the inside of ,the box into which it opens `at one end, and at its other inserted and fastened in the tuyere at one side of the same,'a,s shown in the drawings.

From the above description it is plainte be seen that the air-blast in passing to the tuyere through the air-chamber, or box H surrounding it, must necessarily become heated thereby,` and form the heut of the furnace, itself acting through the top plate I of the box, whereby the consumption of the products ofcombustion inthe furnace is greatly increased and a consequent greater amount of heat generated than `by the ordinary mode of passing the air-blast directly through the tuyere--a quite importa-nt advantage and des'ideratum.

.Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The chambered tuyere A, in combination with a water-reservoir, an air-chamber, and suitable water and blast pipes, all constructed and arranged substantially as described.

JOHN BAYLISS.

Witnesses:

WM. F. McNAMAnA, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

